Brian M. Veteran Posted June 25, 2015 Veteran Share Posted June 25, 2015 Hi All, I have a HP P410 storage controller (with 512MB BBWC if that makes any difference) and I'm currently running ESXi 5.5 - the normal build, not HP's special build. The controller works absolutely fine however since switching to ESXi 5.5 I've had trouble monitoring it. I've installed the drivers from HP (HP software installed as follows:) ~ # esxcli software vib list | grep Hewlett-Packard char-hpilo 500.9.0.0.9-1OEM.500.0.0.434156 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2015-06-08 hpacucli 9.20-9.0 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2015-06-08 hpbootcfg 01-01.02 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2015-06-08 hponcfg 04-00.10 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2015-06-08 scsi-hpsa 5.5.0.106-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Hewlett-Packard VMwareCertified 2015-06-25 However, no matter what I try, I cannot get the controller to show up in hpacucli: ~ # /opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli HP Array Configuration Utility CLI 9.20.9.0 Detecting Controllers...Done. Type "help" for a list of supported commands. Type "exit" to close the console. => ctrl all show status Error: No controllers detected. and it doesn't show up in the health tab in vSphere client. Does anyone have any suggestions if I've missed something? I'm running out of ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted June 26, 2015 MVC Share Posted June 26, 2015 so maybe it died.. If you put it in a different machine does it work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted June 27, 2015 Author Veteran Share Posted June 27, 2015 I don't really have any other boxes around I can test with at the moment. After some further testing I found that hpssacli works. Looking around it seems 5.5 broke something in hpacucli. Still doesn't show the health in the client but at least I can see the status accurately now (and also see that yet another ST3000DM001 is failing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetor Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 according to this that controller is supported but only the HP image of ESXi (5.5 version). can you use that image, in a USB drive, for a couple of hours (just to troubleshoot)? if it works then you know where the problem resides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted June 29, 2015 MVC Share Posted June 29, 2015 what is the box its running in.. Why can you not just run the hp version of esxi? This seems like what you should be running or going to have issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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